The last of the color is low (saw some nice trees along Whitney Creek while hiking out of Lone Pine CG the other evening), and my friend Jim and I decided to explore up Cottonwood Creek yesterday. The ice and snow stirred the skier in me...

“Hitler did not have to destroy democracy; he merely took advantage of the decay of democracy and at the critical moment obtained the support of many to whom, though they detested Hitler, he yet seemed the only man strong enough to get things done.”